Handout from ACEs Aware grantee the Kyer Group that uses scuba diving as a useful metaphor for practicing and building resiliency.

News and information on ACEs and how to connect to networks of ACE resources.

A handout that includes tips for providers that promote their resilience and prevent burnout.

Patient handout that provides tips on ways to reduce children’s effects of toxic stress.

The Science Behind the Skills Adults Need to Succeed in Parenting and in the Workplace. This document details the science behind prolonged stress impacts and rebuilding skills to succeed in adulthood, oriented towards any service provider.

This document details the science behind prolonged stress impacts and rebuilding skills to succeed in adulthood, oriented towards any service provider.

This brief is part of a series that summarizes essential scientific findings from Center publications.

This interactive feature shows how the choices we make can help children and the community as a whole become more resilient in the face of serious challenges.

This document describes a framework to guide communities’ (“community” refers to any group with shared interests such as neighborhoods, counties, states, and professional groups) activities that will support the types of relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive members of their communities so that they, in turn, can build stronger and safer families and communities for their children.

Helpful tips for positive and effective parenting at different ages.

Press release regarding ACEs having been linked to at least 5 of the top 10 leading causes of death.

The Public Health Leadership (PHL) Initiative believes public health agencies can make great strides in preventing child maltreatment. From 2010-2013, the PHL Initiative worked with national and state public health leaders to better understand successes and challenges of public health efforts to address child maltreatment.

Helpful tips for positive and effective parenting at different ages.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed technical packages to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent violence.

“How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime.”

Families Thrive is a Contra Costa, CA-based cross-sectoral partnership to address needs of children and families impacted by trauma, including intimate partner violence.

A Carpinteria Children’s Project handout for adults on how to lower toxic stress.

Handout for parents about caring for themselves and children.

The Let’s Get Healthy California Task Force, created in 2012, is comprised of health leaders who came together to create key priorities and data indicators in a ten-year plan to make California the healthiest state in the nation.

MARC is a learning collaborative of 14 communities across the US engaged in building a movement for a just, healthy, and resilient world, in which they share best practices and receive financial and technical assistance in advancing ACEs-informed work across sectors, including early childhood education, aging, healthcare, and juvenile justice.

Overview of treatments and practices for healing from trauma.

This site provides practical tips on how to incorporate building blocks into a kid’s day to help them bounce back.

Reported published in 2014 to develop a working concept of trauma and a trauma-informed approach and to develop a shared understanding of these concepts that would be acceptable and appropriate across an array of service systems and stakeholder groups.

This 2019 report describes New Jersey’s statewide effort to address ACEs.

Positive Parenting Program—tips for caregiving through 16 years, with additional, formal (paid) online and in-person courses.

Tips on positive parenting.